USCGC Point Ellis
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USCGC Point Ellis (WPB-82330) was an 82-foot (25 m) Point class cutter constructed at the Coast Guard Yard at Curtis Bay, Maryland in 1962 for use as a law enforcement and search and rescue patrol boat. Since the Coast Guard policy in 1962 was not to name cutters under 100 feet (30 m) in length, it was designated as WPB-82330 when commissioned and acquired the name Point Ellis in January 1964 when the Coast Guard started naming all cutters longer than 65 feet (20 m).[4][5]
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Name | USCGC Point Ellis (WPB-82330) |
Namesake | Point Ellis, on Kuiu Island, Alaska |
Owner | United States Coast Guard |
Builder | Coast Guard Yard, Curtis Bay, Maryland |
Commissioned | 28 February 1962 |
Decommissioned | 9 December 1969 |
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Fate | Transferred to Republic of Vietnam Navy as RVNS Lê Ngọc Thanh (HQ-705), 9 December 1969[2] |
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Type | Patrol Boat (WPB) |
Displacement | 60 tons |
Length | 82 ft 10 in (25.25 m) |
Beam | 17 ft 7 in (5.36 m) max |
Draft | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) |
Propulsion | 2 × 600 hp (447 kW) Cummins diesel engines |
Speed | 16.8 knots (31.1 km/h; 19.3 mph) |
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